Generation of transparency and cellular organization in lens explants

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 734-745

  O'Connor, Michael D ^a,b   Wederell, Elizabeth D ^a,b   de Iongh, Robert ^c   Lovicu, Frank J ^a,b   McAvoy, John W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

explant; fibre differentiation; fibroblast growth factor; lens; transparency; vitreous

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPLANT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS CAPSULE; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 42749094494     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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